CSU Project #: 5-32582
Sponsor: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
Primary Investigator: Dr. Glen E. Liston
Start Date: September 22nd, 2012
End Date: September 30th, 2014

• • Help plan a 1-2 day scoping workshop to be held in Fairbanks or Anchorage, in October or November 2012, to determine what model output spatial and temporal domains and products would best serve the needs of the ecologists, fish and wildlife biologists, and resource managers.
• Produce draft workshop report, specifying priority data products.
• • Run SnowModel on an ~1-km grid, 3-hourly time step, over a spatial domain that includes the northern half of Alaska and adjacent portions of Canada, and a temporal domain that spans 1979 through present, and output snow and climate variables of interest to the resource management community. Use NASA MERRA or NCEP NARR reanalyses atmospheric forcing to drive the simulations.
• • Produce at least one local-domain example SnowModel simulation, spatial and temporal domains to be determined, at 100 – 200-m grid scale, assimilating snow water equivalent depth and weather field measurements as available.
• • Prior to the fall scoping workshop, produce a preliminary ~1-km SnowModel simulation over a sample Alaska-Western Canada test domain to illustrate the concepts, possibilities, and limitations of the modeling approach.
• • Produce time-evolving, gridded datasets in geotiff or some other appropriate format with FGDC-compliant metadata.
• • Provide a report and user guide that provides details of the model simulations, data output formats and variables, recommended uses of the datasets, and limitations.
• • Publish a refereed journal article, similar to Liston and Hiemstra (2011a), summarizing the snow-related simulation distributions and trends.
• Adhere to the Arctic LCC Data Sharing policy (http://arcticlcc.org/about/policy/)

  ** No Progress Report **